Business Smarts
Paul Dacier's business-minded approach conquers EMC's legal foes.
January 31, 2007 at 07:00 PM
9 minute read
The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Paul Dacier is one of the rare general counsel who somehow managed to avoid doing any significant time at a law firm before going in-house.
After graduating from Marquette University's law school in 1983, Dacier, the executive vice president and general counsel of EMC Corp., a data-storage solutions provider, spent a year at a small law firm outside Milwaukee working mostly on litigation. But Dacier was as interested in business as he was in law and, in 1984, took a job as a staff lawyer at Apollo Computer Inc.
The Massachusetts company was a high flyer on Wall Street, having just introduced the first networked computer workstations. But when HP acquired Apollo in 1989, Dacier left to become EMC's first general counsel.
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